Architects get creative designing cat shelters for animal charity

14 Los Angeles-based architecture firms were recently commissioned to design a series of custom cat shelters as part of an Architects for Animals "Giving Shelter" fundraiser.

Designers from studios such as HOK and Perkins + Will worked with wood, faux-grass, bits of carpeting, shingled tubes, metal hoops and concrete boxes to construct a series of feline homes ranging greatly in shape, size, and practicality.

Resembling a cat-sized version of Herzog & de Meuron's German VitraHaus, HOK’s shelter featured a stack of transparent structures housed within a wooden canopy and complete with a mini faux-grass lawn.

Formation Association teamed up with artist Edgar Arceneaux to contribute a wooden tunnel shelter with a continuous rib system and spaces for cats to play and hide.